Intel Core i9-11950H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6449 points
7084 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8487 points
9220 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5818 points
6469 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5677 points
6362 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

153.40 points
159.93 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13113 points
15043 points
14% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
22
37% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
85% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
28
40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
Identical
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

223rd of 1,089
186th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i9-11950H vs Core Ultra 7 155H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 155H is faster than the Core i9-11950H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-11950H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155H. Also, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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